Fandom Snowflake Challenge: Day 7

[itsadrizzit]

Day 7

In your own space, create a love meme for yourself. Let people tell you how amazing and awesome and loveable you really are.

I'm never really sure exactly what to do with these things. Like, do I leave you a link to my work and you praise it? Do you generally talk about how great I am. It's funny because I never use this journal so I have like three followers probably and I'm not sure how familiar anyone is with me or my work. So...

I guess comment as you will. Say what you want. I'm not here to ask people to validate me. I mean, *I* think I'm pretty amazing, but y'all are entitled to your own opinions.

If you want to learn more about my work you can visit my AO3 page.

If you want to read all about the rest of my life and hear my random yellings about football and all the ridiculous shit that goes on in my life you can follow me on Twitter (it's locked, so it helps if your usernames match what you have on here or if you indicate somehow who you are or that you're fannish or check out my Tumblr.

Okay? Okay.

Comments

[analise010]

We started out as low-key, almost friends who left sweet comments on each other's podfics and now we're full fledged siblings. There is no one who I would rather be hateful and unapologetic with. You looked out for me, from a whole 'nother state, when I had no one to help me out and even rescued me from the Worst Sleepover Situation. You deserve all the love in the world. ♥

[itsadrizzit]

😙😙😙😙

We are family now and family takes care of one another no matter where they are in the world (including at the symphony).

[wendelah1]

Just making this post makes you awesome. (I am skipping it for sure and I'm a mod.)

[itsadrizzit]

Thanks. I mean...it shouldn't feel awkward to ask people to shower you with love, but yet......

[vassalady]

You are a fantastic person! I am so happy to know you and so glad I can see you in person a couple times a year. I love your (very correct) Dragon Age opinions. Your podfic is so great to listen to. You are all around awesome.

[itsadrizzit]

I LOVE THAT YOU LOVE MY RIDICULOUS DRAGON AGE OPINIONS!!!

[mmouse15]

You seem like an amazing person, so have some fandom *love* ♥

[itsadrizzit]

Thank you!!!

I can't believe you low key support my local football club

[kaixo]

And have been for a couple of years -way before we 'met'. It's a dumpster fire of a club though, *shudders*. We even had Lord Niklas Bendtner for a minute. WTF was our owner thinking, really.

I do admire how unapologetic you are about what you are, but you're still open to working towards what you think you want to be. You know what you like, and you like what you do. Especially say, in being a podficcer where you're on the fringes of a fandom, and when it would have been easier to just chuck it in, you're still trucking! :D Not only that, your podficcing efforts took it from a "yeah, I know podficcish" from my radar to me preaching the ways of the BP statement as if I've found religion.

From working with you on that Five Times Christian Eriksen Helped His Teammates But Inadvertently Found Himself Drowning In His Feels fic, I admired the fact that you were willing to work to make the story better ₁ and you didn't take offence at prodding the more sticky bits of your fic, especially with the language bit. I was so strangely proud when you posted it, it was really the best thing, because it was your work that you put your effort in and you made it better without whinging or throwing a strop when parts were difficult for you to write.

Then to see you writing fic about your favoured pairings, and how your development has grown by leaps and bounds has been a source of amazement and admiration.

It's so weird, getting to know you via you leaving a comment asking me how I pronounced my fanhandle (KAI CHO), because you didn't have to ask, not really. You could have just taken the BP statement and kept on trucking, tbh, and that would have been fine too. But it's been honestly quite lovely getting to know you over the past year, and I do hope, that although fandom is by itself an exercise in transience that we do try and stay friends no matter what.

Wow, this got long, sorry!


¹ _{like, some writers say they want a beta, and that they really want to work on things... but actually want a cheerleader which is... not the same)}

Re: I can't believe you low key support my local football club

[itsadrizzit]

THANK YOU.

I'm always glad to hear that some people out there like my unapologetic self. It's odd here in the land of passive aggressive Scandinavian culture to hear this said in a way that isn't vaguely patronising, and it does truly mean the world to me. I spent close to two decades of my life trying to be what other people wanted me to be until one day I decided that was no way to live and I just needed to be the person I was. I made that choice and I never looked back, BUT! I know how to admit when I was wrong and I know how to admit when I can be better.

Being raised by someone who instead of saying "good job, I'm proud of you" took every opportunity to say "why didn't you do it better?" has taken it's toll, obviously, but it did give me one positive thing in life and that is a drive to never stop doing better. I want to live my life in such a way that every day I feel like I'm a better version of myself than I was the day before.

I've never understood asking someone for their help/opinion and then getting upset or ignoring it when it wasn't the thing you wanted to hear. I appreciate your comments on everything I write. I appreciated your deep beta and your willingness to call me on the big problems and fix the little things and just make all the suggestions in the world. Some people are afraid to go there (because they have writers who want a beta and then don't want to make the changes for whatever reason) so they just skim the surface and move on. I bow to the wisdom of those who go before me and have been doing this longer than me and know far more about these things than I do. As I still have to remind my SO regularly, I only ask a question if I want to know the answer. I appreciate that you'll always give it to me and that you'll go in deep and I will always consider an honest response to any question I ask. I want to be better and I can't do that on my own.

I'm SO GLAD that you had BP. I'm SO GLAD that you were writing fic for the pairings I liked. I'm SO GLAD that all the pieces aligned for me to record those podfics and forge this friendship. I appreciate all your comments, your support, all our conversations, all your encouragement to write what I want to write and stop worrying about it and just do the things. Your support and friendship have been invaluable to me and I'm not sure I'd have gotten as far with my writing adventures without them.

I agree. I do hope we can try to stay friends through whatever fandom and life throw at us. I've truly enjoyed getting to know you over the past year and hope we can continue well into the future.